1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 501 Governor of the Western Mexico Territory
Torres, the former Governor of Colima, Mexico, came to San Francisco with excitement.

He is very thankful for his choice in the war. He did not rashly engage the American army, but chose neutrality.

This choice and his pro-American attitude won him the post of governor of the American West Mexican Territory.

He came to San Francisco today to find Liang Yao to report on his duties.

The Territory of Western Mexico includes the former Mexican states of Sinaloa (6.38 square kilometers), Narit (2.4 square kilometers), Guadalajara (7.86 square kilometers), Colima State (0.5 square kilometers) is the land of four states.

Torres has also jumped from the governor of a small state to the governor of a quasi-state territory with an area of ​​17.14 square kilometers and a population of more than one million.

When Torres came to San Francisco, the whole state of California was talking about the beheading of the federal government officials of the Bureau of Customs, and even the California Customs Superintendent was not spared.

As a neighboring country, the United States and Mexico are now part of the quasi-states of the United States. Torres still has a certain understanding of this neighboring country that is separated by a strip of water.

As the only federal government agency assigned by the federal government to each state, the Customs Bureau has considerable power and voice. If the director of customs says to behead his head, he will be beheaded. Just thinking about it makes people feel chills in their necks.

Torres met the rumored young American general with anticipation and apprehension, and it was he who recommended himself as the governor of the Western Mexico Territory.

"You are Torres?"

Liang Yao looked up and down this somewhat familiar little Mexican old man who was short in stature and a bit older but looked hale and hearty.

"Your Excellency, we met at the meeting of the Coal and Steel Alliance, and I shook hands with you before." Torres said with a smile.

"I see. No wonder it looks familiar." Liang Yao ordered Carnegie to bring the letter of appointment sent by the federal government to California.

"Since I recommended you to Mr. President and the Congress as the governor of the Western Mexico Territory, it is me and the United States that trust you and believe that you can be the governor."

Mexico's newly occupied land, except Baja California and Baja California Sur peninsula, which are connected to California as a whole, were dismembered and included in California due to their geographical connection with California and sparse population, and became part of California.

The two states of Sonora and Chihuahua, because they are adjacent to Arizona Territory and New Mexico Territory, were previously border states of Mexico, not the core states of Mexico, and are sparsely populated, making integration and assimilation relatively difficult, so they were also included in the California.

The remaining Mexican territories further south were unified and merged into a West Mexican territory.

This is helpless, and it is also based on the consideration of objective and realistic conditions.

The West Mexico region was not a frontier region of Mexico before, but one of the core territories. The population of these places exceeded one million. Even with the size of the entire United States, it is difficult to complete integration and assimilation in a short period of time.

It is currently the most cost-effective choice to designate Western Mexico as a territorial territory and let the Mexicans rule the Mexicans to obtain the mineral resources and markets needed for California's development from these places.

"Without your recommendation, it's hard to say who will be the governor of the Western Mexico Territory. Thank you for your trust." Torres accepted the letter of appointment with a smile and expressed his gratitude to Liang Yao.

"If you're being polite, I don't need to say any more. I have read your resume. Before that, I was only the governor of Colima. It is far more difficult to govern a large state than to govern a small state, especially this large territory. It is a mixture of five different states.

Your Excellency the President and the Congress have also considered this point for you, and have sent you two secretaries to assist you in your daily work. "Liang Yao said calmly.

For such an important place in the West Mexican Territory, it is of course impossible for him to completely hand it over to the Mexicans for self-government.

If it is completely handed over to the Mexicans for self-government, what is the difference from before? Isn't Mexico's battle for nothing?
It is still necessary to insure the governor of the territory of Western Mexico.

If possible, Liang Yao would like to set up a Deputy Governor of the Territory in the West Mexico Territory. This position will be held by a Californian, and part of the power of the Governor of the Territory will be shared.

It's just that there is no vice-governor in the United States, so Liang Yao can only take the next best thing and arrange two Californians as secretaries beside Torres.

"Two secretaries?" Torres was a little surprised by this arrangement. Of course, he was also a little displeased.

The United States arranged two secretaries by his side, to put it mildly to assist him in his work, and to put it bluntly to supervise him, which meant that his dream of being the emperor of the western Mexican territory was ruined.

"Yes." Liang Yao called the two secretaries in and had a face-to-face meeting with Torres.

One is his third uncle Liang Shaoyu, and the other is William Hawke, who has been working as a spy in Mexico for a long time.

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A new type of weapon is being tested at the shooting range of the Sacramento Armory in October 1856.

However, the protagonist of this test was not the product of the Sacramento Arsenal, but a product developed by another California arms company, Kony's Volcanic Stone Repeating Weapons Company.

The mayor of Sacramento, Sutter, is a veteran player of firearms. After reading the instructions provided by Kony, he personally tested this continuous-fire weapon called a lever gun.

"The parameters are not false, the effective range has exceeded 200 meters, and the rate of fire is faster than the Walter rifle produced by the Sacramento Armory."

Sutter spoke highly of the rapid-fire gun developed by the Volcanic Repeating Weapons Company, and he also pointed out the shortcomings of the gun.

"It's just that this kind of weapon is inconvenient to shoot in a prone position. It's not very suitable for the army. The unit price of 70 dollars is too expensive. It's okay for us to play with it as a toy. If you want to become a standard weapon, unless your volcanic stone continuous weapon company can make this kind of weapon The unit price of the gun has been suppressed."

"This gun was not originally developed for the army. Our customer is the newly formed cavalry regiment." Kony said very proudly.

"Compared to the last batch of prototype guns, we have lowered the unit price by $15, which is almost the price of a brand new rifle. And this batch of new guns uses new ammunition developed by our Volcanic Stone Repeating Weapons Company.

This ammunition is much better than any previous ammunition in terms of reliability and convenience. "

Infantry was not the target customer of Volcanic Repeating Weapons Company. As a rising star in the California arms industry, the senior management of Volcanic Repeating Weapons Company also knew how difficult and difficult it would be to compete with the semi-official arms company Sacramento Arsenal for infantry orders from the Army.

So the top management of the Volcanic Stone Repeating Weapons Company found another way, positioning the company's target customers as cavalry troops.

After all, in the United States, the cavalry is treated better than the infantry, and the unit budget of the cavalry is also higher than that of the infantry. The cavalry serving in the veteran cavalry units such as the first, second, and third regiments of the US cavalry often have better personal economic conditions. .

As for the cavalry regiment just formed by the western brigade, there is no need to say more. The western brigade has such a wealthy patron as Liang Yao.

(End of this chapter)